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and able to absorb huge amounts of heat without melting or breaking. In
brief, the brake materials should have good heat sinking ability in order to
minimize the interface temperature at the braking surface arising out of
frictional heat (Venkataraman and Sundararajan 2002). The materials that
provide a compromise between weight, strength, and heat transfer are the
carbon–carbon (CC) composites (Stimson and Fisher 1980; Byrne 2004).
A number of studies have been conducted in the past decade to investi-
gate the tribological performance of the CC composite disk brake material
at various sliding velocities, temperatures, and levels of humidity (Gomes et
al. 2001; Luo et al. 2004; Yuan et al. ...